‘The Classic Rock Show’ is back this Thursday, August 14th at 7pm (UK time) / 2pm EDT with three hours of requests and a whole lot more great sounding music on Thursday night from 7pm (UK time).
The ‘Request-line’ is now open for the next 36 hours.
Request-line is now open!!
You have until Midnight tomorrow (Monday, Aug 11) to get those requests in.
Can’t wait to make a show out of what you want to hear!
After something like 10 years or so of rumours and conjecture, “will he, won’t he”, John Garcia’s debut solo album is finally out and available worldwide through Napalm Records. It’s a masterpiece by the most distinctive voice of the entire Desert & Stoner Rock scene!
This record is full of first-class, catchy rock numbers that commute equally between Classic Rock and concise Stoner elements. JohnGarcia has delivered a multi-faceted and extremely intense solo album that will stir up more dust than a sandstorm in the Californian desert. Robby Krieger (The Doors), Danko Jones, Tom Brayton, Mark Diamond and also Garcia‘s old cohort in Kyuss Nick Oliveri show up as guest musicians to round out John‘s solo masterpiece.
John spoke to us recently from his Palm Springs home. We covered a good amount of ground; from what he’s been listening to music-wise, to how much he and his fellow musicians have put into this project and the experience of working with The Doors’ guitarist, Robby Krieger.
“I’m a fan of Rock Music” he says. “This is not a Country Record. This is not an underwater Polka record. This is a straight Rock ‘n’ Roll record.” He went on to add, “Hey man, if you like anything by Judas Priest, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath to Led Zeppelin, you just may like some of the stuff that I’m doing!”
Those of us who have followed John’s music career over the past 25 years or so, will immediately hear that he totally commands his vocal performances on the album – personally speaking, I don’t think he’s sounded better. Of this he says, “My voice has gotten better with age. I’m learning how to control it more.”
You can listen to the interview here:
But it doesn’t just end there. To celebrate his new release, JohnGarcia will hit the stages for an extense European tour (including four UK dates in early December), not only presenting his solo record live, but also playing past and present: From legendary Kyuss songs off Sky Valley, Blues for the Red Sun, …And The Circus Leaves Town – including some rarities even Kyuss never played live – to Slo Burn, this tour will be a highlight and resumé of legendary tunes, that JohnGarcia has created in his career. John will be hitting the road with the following, fantastic musicians on stage:
Ehren Groban – Guitar ( War Drum ), Mike Pygmie – Bass ( You Know Who ), Greg Saenz – Drums ( You Know Who, The Dwarves ).
So there you have it. John Garcia’s debut solo album is out now. I’ve been listening to this album constantly for the past three weeks and it was the first CD to get loaded into my new car’s stereo system, which I took delivery of today!
80s rock music continues to live on in the hearts of everyone who was there. The Classic Rock Show ‘Special’ kicked its series of 10 shows off in fine style and packed in three hours of top notch tuneage.
The date of when we propose to air Part 2 of our series of 10 ‘Specials’ which will bring you the best of the 1980s, will be announced soon.
In the meantime, if you missed Part 1 of our ‘Back To The 80s’ show or want to listen again, you can do so here:
Following our homage to the 70s, The Classic Rock Show is back with another ‘Special’, this time we’re taking you back to the 80s.
Tonight, we begin our quest to showcase some of the very best rock music from the 80s. But we just couldn’t squeeze a whole decade of great music into one three-hour show. So we decided to break it up into ten, yes ten, ‘Specials’…’80 through to ’89!! These will go to air over the coming months.
Yep….you got it…your requests, including Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Steel Panther, Nickelback, Jet, Status Quo, Hinder, Magnum, Skid Row…plus a whole lot more besides.
Tune in from 7pm (BST) via the links on our homepage.
Recorded on the 24th July 2010 at the inaugural High Voltage Festival in Victoria Park, London, this ASIA live CD / DVD captures the band, in the original line-up (Geoff Downes – keyboards, Steve Howe – guitars, Carl Palmer – drums, John Wetton – lead vocal and bass), performing classic material from the 80s, plus songs from the first two albums of its reunion, “Phoenix” and “Omega”.
The show was performed to an enthusiastic festival crowd ready to hear the world’s biggest selling album of 1982 performed in its entirety for the first time in Europe. In fact, this remains the only video document of the original line-up performing the debut album in full.
This live CD / DVD is an irreplaceable companion to the original studio album and the reunion that saw the original members of ASIA return to and stay at the top of their game, this time in front of a ‘home audience’.
Since then of course, Steve Howe has stepped aside and Asia brought in Sam Coulson who went on to record the superb ‘Gravitas’ album, released in March. Our interview with John Wetton is here.
“High Voltage” will be released by Frontiers Records in a glossy digi-pack CD / DVD digi-pack format with Roger Dean artwork and the track listing includes: Only Time Will Tell, Wildest Dreams, One Step Closer, An Extraordinary Life, Time Again, Cutting it Fine, Without You, I Believe, Here Comes the Feeling, Sole Survivor, Heat of the Moment
Release dates: EU: August 22nd 2014. NA: August 25th 2014
Fender USA Jeff Beck Signature Stratocaster signed by Jeff Beck and his 2014 band member is for sale to raise funds for Folly Wildlife Rescue, of which Jeff is an official patron, by Yukinori Miyaji.
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